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Originally Posted by yzmxer608  Cool, won't this mean that they won't get as many buyers when it first comes out though? I'm just assuming that more people would use the RC for free for a year before they buy it right away. The updates/fixes from the RC should obviously be gone but if you could use basically the same OS for free why wouldn't you? Or are they going to discontinue that offer when it is released? |
No. The reason being if anyone really paid any attention to what i have said in several topics, there is still bug work being done, code changes being made and issues fixed in every build release.
The RC Build is 7100. build 7127, build 7137 and Build 7201 are already out to various places for testing. Which means that there is still a lot more changes to be done and a lot more to be fixed in Win7.
So those that would choose to use Win7 would be left behind as they wont get patches or fixes or updates for the RC build once it goes final next month. Because why would Microsoft release fixes and patches for a unfinished product once the final product is done and sent out to OEM and set to be released to the General Public. It would be 2x the amount of work for them to sit there and patch a Beta and a Final OS then to let the Beta go as is and tell everyone to get the Released Product.
Just because the timebomb is set to go off June 2010 doesnt mean you will get support and updates to that date.
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